#ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #LOVE STORY: SORTOF: 4/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss.

Feb 12, 01:04 AM

#ANTONY&CLEOPATRA: #LOVE STORY: SORTOF: 4/8: The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium  by  Barry Strauss.
 
https://www.amazon.com/War-That-Made-Roman-Empire/dp/1982116676

The Battle of Actium had great consequences for the empire. Had Antony and Cleopatra won, the empire’s capital might have moved from Rome to Alexandria, Cleopatra’s capital, and Latin might have become the empire’s second language after Greek, which was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean, including Egypt.

1841 Cleopatra perishes